Investing in social protection and decent work

The report highlights the problems that the MENA region is facing today: mass unemployment throughout the whole region, especially among young people and women; structural problems of unskilled young people, as well as underemployment; rising poverty; rising informal employment; increasing child labour; lack of fundamental freedoms; and the heritage of (neoliberal) perspectives from former authoritarian regimes.

These persistent problems are putting the socio-economic future of the MENA region in jeopardy and can lead to rising poverty and inequalities, which in turn can endanger the already fragile democratic stability. The lack of employment prospects, furthermore, can induce a “brain-drain” phenomenon and provide a potential breeding ground for religious extremism.

Tax Annex to the St Petersburg G20 leaders declaration

1. The G20 has been at the forefront of efforts to establish a more effective, efficient and fair international tax system since they declared the era of bank secrecy over at the G20 London Summit in April 2009. In an increasingly borderless world, strengthening international cooperation in tax matters is essential to ensuring the integrity of national tax systems and maintainingtrust in governments.

Ending Child Labour in Domestic Work

According to the ILO, more than ten million children are doing domestic work, hazardous and sometimes slavery-like work. Six and a half million of them are between 5 and 14 years old and 71 % of them are girls ...